| Jun Tosaka | |
| Native Name: | 戸坂 潤 |
| Birth Date: | 27 September 1900 |
| Birth Place: | Tokyo, Japan |
| Death Place: | Nagano, Japan |
| Nationality: |  Japan |
| Era: | 20th-century philosophy |
| Region: | Japanese philosophy |
| School Tradition: | |
| Academic Advisors: | Nishida Kitarō |
| Main Interests: | Critique, social criticism, historical materialism, anti-imperialism |
[1] was a Shōwa era Kyoto-trained Japanese intellectual, and teacher. Some identify strands of Marxism in his later philosophy. His criticisms of governments and their war policies caused him to end up in prison on various occasions.[2]
Jun Tosaka was born in Tokyo in 1900. Due to his mother's illness and his father's early death he was moved that same year with his nurse to live with his grandparents in the Ishikawa Prefecture on the western side of the country. In September 1905 he returned to Tokyo where he grew up with his mother in the city's Kanda quarter (today part of Chiyoda).[3]
He attended Kyoto Imperial University. He was interested in the works of Nishida Kitaro, and Tanabe Hajime, neo-Kantianism, and then Marxism. He was a member of the Kyoto School. In 1932, Tosaka participated in the creation of the "Society for the Study of Materialism" (Yuibutsuron Kenkyūkai, 唯物論研究会) and remained a leading representative of the society until its ban by the Japanese authorities in 1938. Hee was arrested in the same year under the Peace Preservation Law for his anti-war views. Tosaka died in Nagano Prison before the end of World War II.[4]